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30A December 2021 ISRAEL & THE JEWISH WORLD

BRIEFS
Learn about our growing NEW U.S. COMMAND they felt the need to hide their Jewish The powerful message
Jewish community in this comprehensive
of Chanukah
population study of Sarasota-Manatee
identity.
CENTER TO MONITOR
The survey also found that 84%
ANTISEMITIC THREATS
The Secure Community Network
ered other Jews extended family and
(SCN), the security arm of The Jew- were supportive of Israel, 83% consid-
ish Federations of North America and 56% had traveled to Israel. (Brandeis
the Conference of Presidents of Major Center for Human Rights under Law)
American Jewish Organizations, has ISRAEL TO DOUBLE
opened the National Jewish Security VOLUME OF WATER
Operations Command Center (JSOCC)
in Chicago, where intelligence analysts SOLD TO JORDAN
and security professionals can monitor The volume of water that Israel sells
and track threats to the Jewish com- to Jordan will double and is likely to
munity and coordinate responses with reach 100 million cubic meters over
local, state and federal law enforce- the next year, following an agreement
ment. signed Tuesday, October 12.
The SCN said it saw a 125% in- Since the mid-1990s, Israel has
crease in the reporting of incidents and sold 50 million cubic meters of water
issues related to the Jewish community annually to Jordan. Ten years ago, this
amount was raised to 60 million cubic
1 ST tinuing in 2021. (Faygie Holt, Israel meters.
in 2020, a trend that appears to be con-
population study
Israel has been selling water to
Hayom)
in 20 years!
Jordan since the 1990s at the especially
SURVEY: 2/3 OF JEWISH
cheap tariff of $0.04 per cubic meter,
2019 Sponsored in part by COLLEGE STUDENTS far lower than the $2.48 rate per cubic
a grant from:
meter paid by Israeli consumers.
FEEL UNSAFE
Jewish Community Study A survey of 1,027 members of the This latest agreement hikes the
Cohen Center Authors: A socio-demographic portrait of the Jewish predominately Jewish fraternity AEPi price to $0.65, which means Israel is
Matthew Boxer
Matthew A. Brookner community in Sarasota-Manatee still subsidizing the cost of water for
Eliana Chapman
Janet Krasner Aronson and the leading Jewish sorority AEPhi Jordan.
conducted in April 2021 found that
Israel’s Minister of Infrastructures,
jfedsrq.org/CommunityStudy 70% of the students personally expe- Water and Energy Resources, Karine
jfedsrq.org/CommunityStudy
rienced or were familiar with an an-
Elharrar, said the new “agreement to
For more information, tisemitic attack in the past 120 days, increase the amount of water is an un-
with more than 65% feeling unsafe on
contact Kim Adler campus and one in 10 fearing physical equivocal statement that we want good
941.552.6300 attack. neighborly relations.” (Guy Lieberman,
kadler@jfedsrq.org Furthermore, 50% of students said Globes)

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